Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c7d3061d-022a-4011-a537-1c31c6e1d1e1 Date 12/21/2013 Company Name AnyPerk Mailing Address 442 Post Street 8th Floor San Francisco, CA 94102 Company Description Out mission is to help businesses attract and retain top talent while providing a rewarding work environment. We believe that every employee, regardless of company size, should have access to high-quality employee perks. … Continue reading “AnyPerk Lands $200,000 New Financing Round”
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Videopixie Secures New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=637919e3-6472-4e8c-bc18-83747246f0fd Date 12/18/2013 Company Name Videopixie Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Everyone wants to have great video on their website, but hiring an old-school video agency gets really expensive. Videopixie is a marketplace where you can hire the world’s best video professionals at a range of price points, … Continue reading “Videopixie Secures New Financing Round”
New Nine Plus Accelerator Stretches Out the Startup Timeline
Brooks’s Law of software development, coined by Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month, is that adding personnel to a late software project makes it even later. His pithy summary of the law: “Nine women can’t make a baby in one month.” (That’s a lesson the folks building the Healthcare.gov portal at the … Continue reading “New Nine Plus Accelerator Stretches Out the Startup Timeline”
HD Trade Services Garners $128,500 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=711c381c-3e7c-4ee6-b7ec-05c7633147c6 Date 11/25/2013 Company Name HD Trade Services Mailing Address 110 Lake Avenue S Nesconset, NY 11530 Company Description We believe in the power of brands. Brands are authentic. Brands tell a story. Brands are forms of self-expression. Brands connect people with shared beliefs. Brands inspire us. Brands capture value. Website http://www.hdtradeservices.com … Continue reading “HD Trade Services Garners $128,500 New Funding Round”
FlightCar Opens in LA—Hear CEO at Xconomy’s Hardtech Event 12/9
[Updated 12:10 pm] Rujul Zaparde and his friends weren’t purposely looking to unlock a legendarily tough business challenge when they founded FlightCar, a venture-backed startup that offers cheap parking for travelers who rent their wheels to someone else. “We really thought this was a cool idea, and we really wanted to test this out,” Zaparde … Continue reading “FlightCar Opens in LA—Hear CEO at Xconomy’s Hardtech Event 12/9”
Lob Garners $2,400,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ae4eb565-0675-4397-88ae-40e7119c3d47 Date 11/5/2013 Company Name Lob Mailing Address 250 Santa Fe Terrace Sunnyvale, CA 94058 Company Description Lob was created by Harry and Leore as a solution for developers looking to integrate printing into web/mobile applications. Our mission is to eliminate the complexity and expense of building and maintaining in-house printing solutions. … Continue reading “Lob Garners $2,400,000 Seed Funding Round”
Tandem Applies Muscle to Mobile (Alternative Accelerators, Part 1)
“College” used to mean something pretty clear: a residential experience where you paid a certain amount for tuition, room, and board and, after about four years, you got a bachelor’s degree. These days, of course, there are just as many two-year community colleges as four-year institutions; you don’t have to live on campus; there are … Continue reading “Tandem Applies Muscle to Mobile (Alternative Accelerators, Part 1)”
BuzzFeed, and 4 More Bad Startup Ideas that Look Like Good Ideas
Y Combinator staged its annual Startup School event last Saturday, attracting more than 1,700 young startup founders and would-be founders. Andreessen Horowitz partner (and Xconomist) Chris Dixon, the founder of Web startups SiteAdvisor (sold to McAfee) and Hunch (sold to eBay), gave one of the most interesting talks, under the title “Good Ideas That Look Like Bad … Continue reading “BuzzFeed, and 4 More Bad Startup Ideas that Look Like Good Ideas”
Soylent Lands $1,500,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=da02b9ff-02be-49d0-a9d2-eeb80a2f63e7 Date 10/22/2013 Company Name Soylent Mailing Address 637 Natoma Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description We’re not just too busy to cook and clean up. In Rhinehart’s view, the act of eating is a task that technology can make more efficient—or eliminate entirely. It also reflects fears about scarce resources: … Continue reading “Soylent Lands $1,500,000 Seed Financing”
SimplyInsured Secures $750,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b56d5550-ac2e-426d-97a7-1eb089a2cf51 Date 10/4/2013 Company Name SimplyInsured Mailing Address 100 North Whisman Road Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description SimplyInsured is simple, no-hassle health insurance for small businesses. Our streamlined health insurance manager is 100% online, explained in plain English, and will save you money on your health insurance. Website http://www.simplyinsured.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “SimplyInsured Secures $750,000 New Financing”
Beyond NFC: Tagstand’s Triggers Make Your Smartphone Smarter
What if you could pay your subway fare or buy a pack of gum at the newsstand just by waving your phone over a pad? Wireless manufacturers have spent years experimenting with a short-range radio standard, Near Field Communications (NFC), that allows just this—and Sony’s version of the technology has been in use in Japan … Continue reading “Beyond NFC: Tagstand’s Triggers Make Your Smartphone Smarter”
DoorDash Obtains $2,400,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6e289589-b7ee-472d-90c9-83462473ccce Date 10/1/2013 Company Name DoorDash Mailing Address 565 Stanford Ave Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description DoorDash enables delivery in areas where it was not available. Our mission is to empower small business owners to offer delivery in an affordable and convenient way. We are achieving this mission first by enabling … Continue reading “DoorDash Obtains $2,400,000 New Funding”
Heavybit: Grad School for Startups Building a Software Supply Chain
James Lindenbaum, the Heroku co-founder who has spent the last year building a new startup training program called Heavybit Industries, thinks the software industry is still just as primitive as the automobile business was back in the Great Depression. As late as 1930, Ford and other automakers remained vertically integrated, even building the ore processing … Continue reading “Heavybit: Grad School for Startups Building a Software Supply Chain”
Goldbely Garners $3,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f33aed28-bc6f-4363-9f59-ffe4c4f6ed7b Date 9/17/2013 Company Name Goldbely Mailing Address 1663 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description At Goldbely, we are explorers of food! We are on a mission to discover all things delicious. On our journey, we’re seeking out the legendary local restaurants, amazing artisans and great gourmet food purveyors that … Continue reading “Goldbely Garners $3,000,000 New Financing Round”
Goldbely Lands $3,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f33aed28-bc6f-4363-9f59-ffe4c4f6ed7b Date 9/17/2013 Company Name Goldbely Mailing Address 1663 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description At Goldbely, we are explorers of food! We are on a mission to discover all things delicious. On our journey, we’re seeking out the legendary local restaurants, amazing artisans and great gourmet food purveyors that … Continue reading “Goldbely Lands $3,000,000 New Financing”
Vastrm Fashion Obtains $1,000,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0ceaa246-8ab7-4123-9c6f-d119eedd5b1c Date 8/29/2013 Company Name Vastrm Fashion Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description We meticulously crafted our first collection of polo shirts, using only the finest fabrics and materials. The Vastrm aesthetic is classic yet modern, with a fashion forward twist – and every shirt will resist fading, shrinking … Continue reading “Vastrm Fashion Obtains $1,000,000 Seed Round”
Heap Receives $2,000,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=95fa0931-6af7-4906-8fa7-fee69ae2bc07 Date 8/28/2013 Company Name Heap Mailing Address Undisclosed Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description Heap automatically captures every user action in your app and lets you measure it all. Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views, and more. Website http://www.heapanalytics.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,000,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds … Continue reading “Heap Receives $2,000,000 Seed Financing Round”
Copia’s E-Reader Finds Audience in Classrooms After Shift to Edtech
As students reluctantly get into back-to-school mode, the likelihood of them finding digital platforms such as e-readers in classrooms is increasing. More companies want in on the education technology (edtech) scene, and Copia Interactive in New York believes lessons it learned from the consumer e-reader market can help it ace this subject. Taking a device-agnostic … Continue reading “Copia’s E-Reader Finds Audience in Classrooms After Shift to Edtech”
Sift Science Uses Machine Learning to Weed Out Credit Card Fraud
Google has team of 120 engineers dedicated solely to fighting fraud and webspam. Its leader, Matt Cutts, is probably the most familiar face at the company, after founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and chairman Eric Schmidt. Up in Seattle, Amazon has more than twice as many full-time fraud-fighters. And when you consider that online … Continue reading “Sift Science Uses Machine Learning to Weed Out Credit Card Fraud”
Meet the 45 New Y Combinator Startups: From Bitcoins to Bots
[Headline updated to reflect accurate startup count of 45, not 46. That’ll teach you not to do math in your head at 2 in the morning.] One secret to getting through yesterday’s Y Combinator Demo Day, if you were one of the 800 people enduring three hours of presentations at the Computer History Museum in … Continue reading “Meet the 45 New Y Combinator Startups: From Bitcoins to Bots”
Le Tote Obtains Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=12643a51-cf9b-4acd-b0dc-06bb8ec12df5 Date 8/2/2013 Company Name Le Tote Mailing Address 2660 3rd Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description LE TOTE is a fashion discovery platform that connects brands with consumers through a rental model. We offer access to UNLIMITED boutique style apparel and accessories for only $49 a month. Website http://www.letote.com Transaction … Continue reading “Le Tote Obtains Seed Funding”
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do; Wevorce Aims to Make It Easier
Michelle Crosby, co-founder and CEO of divorce mediation start-up Wevorce, knew what she wanted to do when she was nine. Six years into an epic custody battle, one of her parents’ lawyers put her on the stand and asked her which parent she would want to be with on a desert island. “At nine, you … Continue reading “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do; Wevorce Aims to Make It Easier”
Detroit Startup Rippld Finds New Life in Silicon Valley
On a recent rainy summer morning, Adrian Walker, co-founder of the Detroit and now San Francisco-based startup Rippld, described how he almost threw in the towel on the fledgling team-building network he built for creative professionals. It was December 2012, and Rippld was nearly out of money, behind schedule on its public launch, and had recently … Continue reading “Detroit Startup Rippld Finds New Life in Silicon Valley”
EasyPost Secures $850,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=741159f5-f536-4c92-9730-af22a6a02c9d&Preview=1 Date 6/10/2013 Company Name EasyPost Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94142 Company Description EasyPost is a simple API for postage, price comparison, and address verification. Website http://www.geteasypost.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $850,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Y Combinator … Continue reading “EasyPost Secures $850,000 Seed Round”
Nine Lessons for Innovators from a Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist
I was pretty slow about getting around to reading Thinking, Fast and Slow. The career-capping book by Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman, one of the founders of behavioral economics, spent months on all the bestseller lists back in 2011. I finally picked up a paperback copy a couple of weeks ago. The book is mainly about … Continue reading “Nine Lessons for Innovators from a Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist”
Matterport Isn’t Playing Games with Kinect-Style 3D Camera
When Tel Aviv, Israel-based PrimeSense came out with its first depth-sensitive, near-infrared camera-on-a-chip in 2010, nobody could have predicted how many uses hardware makers would dream up for the technology within a few short years. The first and most famous was Microsoft’s Kinect sensor, which lets gamers move their bodies to interact with video games. … Continue reading “Matterport Isn’t Playing Games with Kinect-Style 3D Camera”
Cloud Seeding: Rackspace’s Soft Spot for Startups
There are at least three good reasons for a startup to apply to an accelerator or incubator program: the mentorship, the networking connections, and the money (around $100,000 if your company gets into a top-tier accelerator like Y Combinator). But at most accelerators, there’s another, lesser-known benefit: the swag—as in the free, or virtually free, … Continue reading “Cloud Seeding: Rackspace’s Soft Spot for Startups”
The Muse’s CEO: Tech Needs More Visible Female Role Models
Diversifying what is considered the face of technology could encourage more women to become founders, says Kathryn Minshew, CEO and co-founder of New York career advice site The Muse and sister news site The Daily Muse. She chatted with me after speaking at last night’s Made in New York event, which promotes tech companies based … Continue reading “The Muse’s CEO: Tech Needs More Visible Female Role Models”
CrowdMed Receives $1,100,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=34cd143b-48fa-4bbf-aae7-237dfb7b8c86&Preview=1 Date 4/17/2013 Company Name CrowdMed Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94102 Company Description CrowdMed is revolutionizing healthcare by harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to help solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online. Website http://www.crowdmed.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,100,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds … Continue reading “CrowdMed Receives $1,100,000 Seed Financing Round”
Y Combinator Unleashes 47 New Startups, From the Cloud to the Crowd
Y Combinator‘s slimmed-down class of 47 Winter 2013 startups told their stories at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View yesterday. It was the 16th semi-annual Demo Day for the world’s most prestigious and productive startup accelerator, the birthplace of companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Heroku, Reddit, and Disqus. Some 14 of the companies opted to remain … Continue reading “Y Combinator Unleashes 47 New Startups, From the Cloud to the Crowd”
What Greenstart’s Reboot Means for Cleantech—And For Accelerators
When Greenstart set up shop in San Francisco in 2011, it was the nation’s first accelerator dedicated to nurturing cleantech startups. Co-founder and managing partner Mitch Lowe said at the time that the organization’s mission was to fill a big gap: He wanted to give alternative energy entrepreneurs access to the same type of training, … Continue reading “What Greenstart’s Reboot Means for Cleantech—And For Accelerators”
Teespring Garners $100,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d5b81a59-af72-4b6d-ae7b-8ccedb5b69e5&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Teespring Mailing Address 3 Davol Square Providence, RI 02903 Company Description Teespring allows you to create & sell custom tees with zero upfront costs, and zero risk. Create & sell t-shirts online the easy way. No paying thousands of dollars upfront, no guessing how many shirts or … Continue reading “Teespring Garners $100,000 Seed Financing”
Microryza Garners Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f0388d2f-89b9-4b98-9052-e53c19a6a1bb&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Microryza Mailing Address Undisclosed Seattle, WA 98105 Company Description Microryza is a crowdfunding platform for research. Individuals pool their money until the funding goal is reached. You’ll get to see experiments unfold with updates and progress from the lab and have a chance to interact directly with … Continue reading “Microryza Garners Seed Financing Round”
Airware Obtains $100,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=34c7df9e-849e-42b7-b3e0-2ac307d9c29f&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Airware Mailing Address 2901 W Coast Highway Newport Beach, CA 92663 Company Description Airware specializes in professional grade, customizable autopilots which act as Development Platforms for micro to mid-size fixed-wing, helicopter, multiple-rotor, and custom configuration UAS. Launching in the Fall of 2012, our os-Series Autopilots integrate hardware, … Continue reading “Airware Obtains $100,000 Seed Round”
Bitnami Garners $100,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f83d37ce-3313-4977-aaec-350118d3747f&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Bitnami Mailing Address 1151 Marina Village Pkwy Alameda, CA 94501 Company Description BitNami is an app store for server software. There are a lot of high quality open source software applications that are not used as much as they could be because getting them up and running … Continue reading “Bitnami Garners $100,000 Seed Round”
Zaranga Obtains $100,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8b9603ce-c1b1-461c-a6c3-3e4fef355ca8&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Zaranga Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94102 Company Description Zaranga is an online marketplace that connects managers and owners of vacation rental properties with guests. Unlike other vacation rental marketplaces, Zaranga enables guests to make an offer and to book instantly. Every aspect of reservation process … Continue reading “Zaranga Obtains $100,000 Seed Financing”
Watsi Obtains $100,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6bce952e-6d42-4a37-9dd0-4a4b1ed5aa57&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Watsi Mailing Address 123 10th St San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description All over the world people are dying of treatable illnesses because they can’t afford basic medical care. Watsi connects you with patients in serious need of low-cost medical care and enables you to fund high-impact … Continue reading “Watsi Obtains $100,000 Seed Financing Round”
Posmetrics Secures $100,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=720fba2c-0bc8-4593-a916-4e7f7c727fde&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Posmetrics Mailing Address 320 Pioneer Way Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description Posmetrics includes an intuitive online tool for writing your own surveys, including industry-specific template questions and suggestions to get the most meaningful feedback. Add customized questions for your business, collect customer email addresses and suggestions, … Continue reading “Posmetrics Secures $100,000 Seed Funding Round”
Simplyinsured Receives $100,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d3d7a6af-1148-4960-9ab6-af21598a548a&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Simplyinsured Mailing Address 320 Pioneer Way Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description SimplyInsured is simple, no-hassle health insurance for small businesses. Our streamlined health insurance manager is 100% online, explained in plain English, and will save you money on your health insurance. Website http://www.simplyinsured.com Transaction Type Accelerator … Continue reading “Simplyinsured Receives $100,000 Seed Round”
Circuitlab Garners $100,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0917a1c6-2d50-483f-936d-bd9afbcb149b&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Circuitlab Mailing Address 570 S. Rengstorff Ave Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description We’re making it easier for engineers, students, and hobbyists to design, analyze, build, and share circuits. Electronic circuits are everywhere: from the watch on your wrist, and the fuel injection controller that powers your … Continue reading “Circuitlab Garners $100,000 Seed Funding”
Fivetran Lands $100,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=22d869ab-1fa1-46f8-91cb-e0ae3cdd8422&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Fivetran Mailing Address 2816 Broderick Street San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description There’s a big hole in the spreadsheet market. There’s easy, but weak Excel on the low end, and powerful but complicated MatLab and SPSS on the high end. Fivetran wants to combine professional functionality with … Continue reading “Fivetran Lands $100,000 Seed Funding”
Wevorce Garners $100,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=510215a6-da8c-46a5-b0f1-e49fdd5952da&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Wevorce Mailing Address 142 George St. San Jose, CA 95110 Company Description Our approach is designed around the needs of families. Not only will we work together to negotiate an equitable, sustainable parenting plan, we’ll provide you with the tools to help you succeed long after the … Continue reading “Wevorce Garners $100,000 Seed Financing Round”
Padlet Receives $100,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7705a624-5a08-4634-b2c6-ee7f7cca164c&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Padlet Mailing Address 175 Acalanes Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Company Description Drag and drop website collaboration tool Padlet is “the easiest way to put stuff on the internet” according to its founder. Over 300K monthly users from 197 countries create content on the site every month, seeing … Continue reading “Padlet Receives $100,000 Seed Round”
Errplane Garners $100,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=18ef0957-e953-4c80-93ef-3ec0de65c99c&Preview=1 Date 3/26/2013 Company Name Errplane Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10017 Company Description When a developer’s app performance suffers, so does their wallet. They want to know immediately if something’s wrong. Errplane is a real-time application monitoring system that alerts developers via email, text, or chat when the performance of … Continue reading “Errplane Garners $100,000 Seed Funding”
Ag Tech Startup FarmLogs Nets $1M in Seed Funding
The Ann Arbor, MI-based ag tech startup FarmLogs is on a quest to bring farm management into the digital age, and the recent completion of a $1 million seed round lead by Ann Arbor-based Huron River Ventures and Chicago-based Hyde Park Venture Partners will push the company forward. What FarmLogs offers is a one-stop farm … Continue reading “Ag Tech Startup FarmLogs Nets $1M in Seed Funding”
San Diego Opens CyberHive to Incubate Cybersecurity Startups
A cybersecurity initiative that began in San Diego several years ago has taken an interesting turn, with the formation of a new technology incubator for seed-stage companies developing new ways to defend computer networks, software, and data from malicious attacks. The incubator, called CyberHive San Diego, is modeled after a similar cybersecurity accelerator at bwtech@UMBC, … Continue reading “San Diego Opens CyberHive to Incubate Cybersecurity Startups”
When Freemium Ain’t Free: Crowdbooster Offers a Painful Case Study
Crowdbooster is a Palo Alto, CA-based startup that solves one of the nettlesome new problems posed by the social media explosion—helping users figure out how many people they’re actual reaching when they share information on Twitter or Facebook. A lot of people like the service: within just two years of graduating from Y Combinator, Silicon … Continue reading “When Freemium Ain’t Free: Crowdbooster Offers a Painful Case Study”
Marketing Tech Developer Unified Acquires Y Combinator-Alum PageLever
Enterprise marketing technology provider Unified in New York said in a statement Monday it acquired San Francisco-based PageLever, a developer of an analytics platform for Facebook Pages, for undisclosed terms. PageLever is a graduate of the summer 2011 Y Combinator startup incubator program. Unified, which also has offices in San Francisco and Chicago, was founded … Continue reading “Marketing Tech Developer Unified Acquires Y Combinator-Alum PageLever”
Harvard i-lab Sprouts Startups: Nucleik, PollVaultr, Vaxess, & More
The Harvard Innovation Lab has been open for business just over a year. Led by managing director Gordon Jones and his team of startup hustlers, the Allston, MA-based community space for student entrepreneurs is just hitting its stride, with a number of current and former residents making noise in the local and national startup scene. … Continue reading “Harvard i-lab Sprouts Startups: Nucleik, PollVaultr, Vaxess, & More”
The Muse Receives $1,200,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ba54c259-ad68-429f-92fe-e403cc40fd81&Preview=1 Date 1/25/2013 Company Name The Muse Mailing Address Undisclosed Brooklyn, NY 11201 Company Description The Muse is a rapidly growing community of inspired professionals who believe that kicking ass and taking names is all part of the job. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, work for a Fortune 500 company, or dream about … Continue reading “The Muse Receives $1,200,000 Seed Funding”